The Chill by Ross Macdonald - ISBN: 9780141196619
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Missing bride, brutal murders, and a family’s dark, chilling secret.

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    19 September 2012

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Summary

One of America’s finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer on the day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours after and Alex has heard nothing since. But when Archer begins digging, he finds evidence that links Dolly to brutal murders that span two…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141196619
ISBN-10:0141196610
Author:Ross Macdonald
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:19 September 2012
Weight:261g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

A master of structure and story… a writer of immense grace, sensitivity and insight

A master of structure and story… a writer of immense grace, sensitivity and insight – Jonathan KellermanA more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were – Eudora WeltyAmerica’s greatest crime writer – Elmore LeonardRoss MacDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books – James EllroyThe finest series of detective novels ever written by an American – William Goldman

About The Author

Ross Macdonald

MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.

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